Quotes about Strength

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.

God doesn't want courageous cowards; He needs confident commanders.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

The things we try to avoid and fight against—tribulation, suffering, and persecution—are the very things that produce abundant joy in us. "We are more than conquerors through Him" "in all these things"; not in spite of them, but in the midst of them. A saint doesn't know the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it. Paul said, "I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation" (2 Corinthians 7:4).

Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself.

In the midst of the awfulness, a touch comes and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. The right hand not of restraint nor of correction nor of chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it is ineffable peace and comfort, the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," full of sustaining and comfort and strength. My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Edition

The saint who satisfies the heart of Jesus will make other saints strong and mature for God.

Prayer does not equip us for greater works—prayer is the greater work.

Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus.